Word: royalities
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...flags of London fluttered. The guns in Hyde Park boomed. At Windrsor cannon roared salute and bells rang out right merrily through the day. Visitors flocked to Marlborough House to sign the guest book. Couriers-that is postmen and telegram lads-rushed with greetings. At Sandringham, surrounded by her royal relatives, the Queen Mother, Dowager Alexandra, passed a festive 80th birthday in the best of health and spirits...
...Valentin Conrart, secretary to Louis XIII, received each week in his house eight of the literary lights of the period. It was not long before Cardinal Richelieu heard of the meetings and, wishing to control the litterateurs as he controlled everybody else, he offered his protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King...
...debating chamber, seized 14 members of the Opposition, threw them out on the street. Then meetings of indignation were held all over the city. Anger grew; and the city became alive with people running this way and that. The Government ordered out the Army to occupy the beautiful Royal Castle, on the right bank of the Danube, and all the State buildings. The Bethlen regime, so used to wobbling, wobbled again...